Tuesday 4/28 morning update. Just did DPD.
FC 12
78 degrees
FC 12
78 degrees
Tuesday 4/28 morning update. Just did DPD.
FC 12
78 degrees
WOW! "painting the surface"! He obviously didn't even read the instructions for using the strips! he got one thing right.. install an SWG. You can pay for it with what you are not paying him!No extra charge for chemicals. Just the monthly bill.
He was using test strips. I saw him barely dip them in the water. It looked more like he was painting the surface of the pool with them...
When I first mentioned that something seemed off, he told me I needed a new filter. Charged me $120 for an $80 Hayward CS150E. Said that would fix it... which we all know it didn't. Then I bought test strips which showed the levels were through the roof. He dismissed those as inaccurate.
When I told him for the third and final time that the levels were way off (with proof from the TF-100 test kit) he told me to install an SWG for $980... Constant up-sell!
This is the conversation I heard...Can you hear this conversation back at their shop
Hey joe how many gallons of chlorine did you add today?
It was low so I added 25
Wait its a small pool right
I dunno but was low last week and I put 40 gallons in
The empty the leaf basket back in made me laugh and I needed thatThis is the conversation I heard...
Boss: Hey Joe how many gallons of chlorine did you add today?
Joe: It was low so I added 25, but I told him I added 40.
B: Is that it! You know we want to perform better service than that...!
J: I dumped the leaf basket from the skimmer back into the pool so there is something for me to do next week.
B: Excellent
This is the conversation I heard...
Boss: Hey Joe how many gallons of chlorine did you add today?
Joe: It was low so I added 25, but I told him I added 40.
B: Is that it! You know we want to perform better service than that...!
J: I dumped the leaf basket from the skimmer back into the pool so there is something for me to do next week.
B: Excellent
Tell them after they pay 4 months they get a dolphin s200OMG! Funny because its so true.
I have some extra time right now due to COVID. I'm going to start "Mark's Pool Service".
I'm going to charge a one time $265 fee. It includes a tft test kit ($165) and a TFP Gold membership ($100).
Then that would cause a fight at the water treatment plantReading through this thread and found it interesting. In the end it may have been quicker / better to just drain 1/2 the pool to bring your Chlorine levels down quicker (probably could have drained and refilled in a day). And, like someone else said, Holy Moly on that 1.5HP pump. Buy a new variable speed pump and put that 1.5HP up on Craigslist maybe?
Nice, Things should settle down and shouldn’t need to add acid daily I wouldn’t think.It has been a busy week of water testing (everything is in PoolMath). I am trying to get a better sense of how much chlorine is used on a daily/weekly basis. It seems like the pool, which isn't very big (4,200 gallons) needs roughly 1 cup of 10% bleach daily.
I was trying to lower TA a little by adding Muriatic Acid to get the pH down to 7.2 TA is now 90 from 120 (5 days ago).
Muriatic usage is about 3oz every 4-days. pH fluctuates from 7.5 - 7.9.
I just purchased a measuring cup to get a more accurate sense of how much bleach / muriatic acid I am actually adding.
Yeah it may have been quicker... but its not like his pool was in dire need of anything else that needed immediate attention., all the other chems were in line. So just wait until it drops on its own... beside it would have taken all the drama out of the thread. We need more denouement these days.Reading through this thread and found it interesting. In the end it may have been quicker / better to just drain 1/2 the pool to bring your Chlorine levels down quicker (probably could have drained and refilled in a day). And, like someone else said, Holy Moly on that 1.5HP pump. Buy a new variable speed pump and put that 1.5HP up on Craigslist maybe?
Yeah it may have been quicker... but its not like his pool was in dire need of anything else that needed immediate attention., all the other chems were in line. So just wait until it drops on its own... beside it would have taken all the drama out of the thread. We need more denouement these days.
Besides it helped whitewash planes that flew over